Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa states that he is optimistic that the economy adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic could be re-built on a solid basis. The Presidential Task Force in charge of the Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication has been entrusted with the responsibility of formulating a new economic model to achieve this objective. President […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Navy has not withdrawn from any operation pertaining to the anti-coronavirus campaign carried out in the country, Sri Lanka Navy said issuing a press release. It points out that false information that the Sri Lanka Navy has temporarily withdrawn from the Covid-19 Control campaign is being circulated on several social networks […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Fundamental Rights (FR) petition has been filed challenging the Gazette notification issued by the Election Commission declaring the General Election on June 20 as well as the Gazette notification on the dissolution of Parliament. The General Secretary of Jathika Samagi Jana Balawegaya and former UNP Parliamentarian Ranjith Madduma Bandara has lodged the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three persons who were previously identified as COVID-19 patients have been declared as COVID-19 negative today (06), stated Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. Two residents of Rajagiriya and Kolonnawa and a nurse of Colombo National Hospital were identified to have contracted the novel coronavirus, yesterday (05). However, following more testing as […]

Courtesy Adaderana Considering the prevailing situation in the country, the Department of Railways has initiated a program to provide transport facilities for the employees who report for essential duties in the public and private sectors. This scheme will be valid only for public and private sector employees who have obtained monthly or quarterly season tickets […]

Violent extremism is easier to deal with. Authorities can locate venues of training and gather groups being trained and even rehabilitate them. However, the task is not simple when the masterminds of violent extremism are disguised and camouflage themselves as high profile persons, accepted & respected by society, holding powerful positions and people who have […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Prior to the Presidential election, there were two main arguments, viz.  1. Abolition of Executive Presidency and 2. After 19A, the role of the Executive Presidency has no powers. The abolition of EP is now a lost cause.  In fact, the emerging facts and the ground support rallying around the […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති කොරෝනාවත් එක්කම විවිධාකාර වෙදකම් ගැන කතාවකුත් ඇති වෙලා. මේ ලෙඩේට මුල් වෙලා තියෙන කෝවිඩ් – 19 කියන වයිරසය නසන ක්‍රමයක් හොයා ගන්න තමයි බටහිර වෛද්‍ය පර්යේෂකයෝ දවල් රෑ නැතුව මහන්සි වෙන්නේ. අපිට වද දෙන වයිරස්, බැක්ටීරියා හඳුනා ගෙන ඒවා නැති කරලා දාන්න මහන්සි වෙන එක බටහිර වෛද්‍ය ක්‍රමයේ මූලික ම ලක්‍ෂණයක්. ඉතින් […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane This was a unique cultural event held at the University of Toronto’s prestigious Robarts Library, from May 21 to 30, 2005, to mark firstly, Vesak”, the most holy and venerated time of the year for Buddhists, and secondly, in commemoration of 100 years of Buddhism in Canada. Vesak full-moon day, which usually […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ ජනාධිපති ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුව පසුගිය මාර්තු 2 වෙනි දා ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය විසුරුවා හැරියේය. ඒ සමග ම අඵතින් ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය ආරම්භ කිරීම සඳහා තමන්ගේ නියෝජිතයන් තෝරා ගැනීමට ජනතාවට ඇති අනුල්ලංගණීය අයිතිය කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කිරීමට දින නියම කළේය. (ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය ප‍්‍රජාතනත‍්‍රවාදී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ එක් අංශයක් පමණ කි.* ඉන් සතියකට පමණ පසු මාරක කොරෝනා වයිරසය හිස ඔසවන්නට වීය. ජනාධිපති, භාරකාර ආණ්ඩුවේ අගමැති […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 6.5.20 The third nikaya to emerge in Sri Lanka was the Ramanna Nikaya.  Ramanna nikaya was started byAmbagahawatte Saranankara. (b. 1832) He had received the Kalyani Upasampada of the Siyam Nikaya from Benthara Atthadassi,   but later found that this ordination was suspect. Instead of joining Amarapura nikaya, Ambahawatte Saranankara decided to go […]

Courtesy FT The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and the number of deaths around the world The human cost of the coronavirus outbreak has continued to mount, with more than 3.5m cases confirmed globally and more than 242,700 people known to have died. https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200504&instance_id=18202&nl=the-morning&regi_id=58230404&segment_id=26556&te=1&user_id=d7a1388c5ce8e22bd59407dcc9c09650

සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. සෞඛ්‍ය පෝෂණ හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍ය, පවිත‍්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය, සෞඛ්‍ය පෝෂණ හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය, පූජ්‍ය බද්දේගම විමලවංශ හිමි මාවත, කොළඹ 10. මහත්මියනි, #Covid- 19 මර්දන ක‍්‍රියාවලිය වඩා විද්‍යාත්මක ප‍්‍රවේශයකින් ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා සෞඛ්‍ය සේවාවේ සිදුවිය යුතු අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ව්‍යුහාත්මක වෙනස්කම් සහ ගැටලූ විසඳා ගැනීම සඳහා සෞඛ්‍ය වෘත්තීය සමිති ඒකාබද්ධ දසවැදෑරුම් […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  This is the chance for local manufacturers to grab  Let us capitulate is on this and produce items locally During my time in Russia, I was having industrial training during the first year in a Factory in Moscow called Borets where large compressors were built with local materials. Body and parts were […]

සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය මහතා/මහත්මිය/මෙනෙවිය පුවත්වපත/ගුවන්විදුලිය/රූපවාහිනිය/වෙබ් ලේකම්, ලේකම්, එස්. හෙට්ටිආරච්චි මහතා, රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන අමාත්‍යාංශය, නිදහස් චතුරස‍්‍රය – කොළඹ 07. ලේකම්තුමනි, මැයි 06 දිනට පෙර පිළිගත හැකි විසඳුමක් නොලැබුණහොත් අතිරේක රාජකාරී වලින් ඉවත්වන බව දැනුම් දීම. #Covid-19 වසංගත තත්වය යටතේ පීඩාවට පත්වන ජනතාවට අවශ්‍ය සහන සැලසීම සඳහා දිස්ත‍්‍රික් හා ප‍්‍රාදේශීය පාලනයට අයත් ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් ඇතුළු […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. වැව් බැඳි රාජ්‍යය ඉහතින් පෙන්වන ලංකාවේ වියලි කලාපයේ වාරි කර්‌මාන්ත සිතියම 1909 වර්‌ෂයේදී පිළියෙල කරණ ලද්දකි. ගම-වැව-දාගැබ යන ත්‍රිත්‌වය ලංකාවේ ඉතිහාසය හා භූගෝල ‌විද්‍යාව නොවේද (ඉතිහාසය යනු අතීත භූගෝල විද්‍යාවය) යන්න මේ සිතියම දකින විට එන සිතුවිල්ලකි. තෙත් කලාපයේද වාරි කර්‌මාන්ත බෙහෙවින් පැතිරී ඇත. මේ සිතියමින් දෙන තවත් පණිවුඩයක් නම්, ලංකාවේ […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The first clash within the Sangha was between the Udarata Siyam and Pahata rata Siyam. Udarata monks ridiculed the Pahata rata monks. I think they saw them as ‘polluted’ since the Pahata rata was under Dutch rule. Pahata rata monks were not crushed by this. They in turn, watched the sima debate between […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reviewed in depth the mechanism in place to resume day-to-day life and work in the districts of Colombo, Kalutara, Gampaha and Puttalam from May 11 onward, at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday evening (5).   He said that both public and private sector entities should re-commence […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka confirmed its 9th death due to COVID-19 as a 52-year-old female succumbed to the virus today (05). The death is reported from the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Angoda, according to the Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. The deceased is said to be a resident of Modara, Colombo […]

Courtesy Adaderana Six new confirmed cases of Coronavirus have been reported increasing the total to 771 positive cases in the country, the Ministry of Health said. As of 11.30 p.m. on Tuesday (05), a total of 549 patients are currently under medical care for COVID-19 while the number of recoveries in Sri Lanka has risen […]

N.A de S. Amaratunga Courtesy The Island It is necessary to place Ayurveda in its correct perspective in the context of COVID. In this regard one cannot do justice to traditional medicine without reference to the development of early science and medicine. Ayurveda, ‘Sinhala Vedakama’ and other similar traditional medicine are scientific in the broad […]

Courtesy Adaderana Nineteen more persons are confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus, says the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, the number of new coronavirus cases detected today (04) has climbed to 33, thus raising the total of coronavirus cases in the country to 751 cases. 549 active cases are currently under medical care at hospitals […]

The recent article by Dr. Nihal Jayawickrema reconfirms the doubts many have that the Election Commission was up to mischief and committing a series of blunders. The situation requires the President and his legal advisors to promptly mitigate the crisis without allowing the President’s 2nd March proclamation to fall null & void by 2nd June […]

The President in dissolving Parliament on 2nd March & setting a new date for polls followed all the rules. Having set a date it was left to the Election Commission to conduct the polls. Yes, the country was facing a global pandemic. But the country also weathered 30 years of terrorism and continued to hold […]

Ananda Wijesinghe Canada Mother Nature Warns             Incessantly destructive Human Activity, paying neither attention nor slightest regard for Mother Nature’s periodical deterrent warnings throughout a couple of millennia has now been responded to in her most relentless lash back, in what has been identified as an endemic: Corona Virus – aka CorVid-19, that has quickly […]

Lankaweb Editorial As they scramble for a cure or a vaccine to eliminate the COVID 19 the virus continues in its ever-changing perspective towards success the world watches on in eager anticipation as to who will get there first? There are many pretenders towards it, many of them unqualified quacks out to make a buck […]

MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister The President, the government, and the state apparatus have focused their entire attention on combating Covid-19. The way in which the people have benefited from this is clearly apparent. Even in the midst of this national crisis and global disaster we see the unpleasant sight of the political opposition […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ජනාධිපතිතුමාත්, ආණ්ඩුවත්, සමස්ත රාජ්‍ය යාන්ත්‍රනයත් තම සම්පූර්ණ අවධානය කොරෝනා මර්ධන ව්‍යාපාරය කෙරෙහි යොමු කර තිබෙන ආකාරයත්, ඉන් ජනතාවට ප්‍රතිඵල අත් වෙමින් පවතින ආකාරයත් කාටත් පෙනේ. මේ මහා ජාතික ආපදාව හා ලෝක ව්‍යසනය මධ්‍යයේ වුවත්, විසිරුවා හැර තිබෙන පරණ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නැවත රැස් කළ යුතු බවත්, අප්‍රේල් 30 වෙනිදායින් පසු පැරණි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ […]

Dr. SARATH OBEYSEKERA  I read the editorial of Divaina today during the wee hours and decided to pen my views.  Part of the editorial which drew my attention is the proposal to repair the oil tanks in Trinco and put to service.  I myself mooted a similar idea to be taken up with the Task […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island “Where knowledge is sparse, experts proliferate” is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have learned during this troubled time we all are going through. At times, I wished Sir Tim Berners-Lee patented his invention – the World Wide Web – rather than gifting it to humanity. That would […]